I was delighted that Sarah Metcalfe could join me as the very first guest on my podcast. If you haven't already, you can listen to the episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0puprDnXks1kOKlqMYYZOJ?si=FwrR-YVfRCe7Emzepfdrzw Here are my Top Takeaways from our...
What a weekend it’s been!! House move weekend…. It always seems a good idea at the time, right!?! We experienced two examples of leadership: The supervisor of Trunk Logistics was just brilliant. He was happy to help carry furniture with his team, was quick to step in...
I went to the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year with one eye on the leadership of the event. I came away with 3 thoughts… Impeccable planning. This is a massive event that runs like clockwork and is incresibly impressive. It has a huge array of cars and bikes to...
Over the last few weeks I’ve been lucky enough to be a part of a couple of brilliant team days. I’ve been trying to pin down what exactly equates to ‘brilliant’ and my top 5 recommendations for a brilliant team day are….. Include everybody. Ensure your day is made...
This weekend was an annoyance of train journeys: one lost bag and a customer refusing to get off, a pulled emergency handle and a train stuck in a tunnel, a jamming of doors and a train stuck at a platform…. and so it went on. But what stuck in my mind was the...
The third of my watchwords for 22 is kindness. Sometime last year I stumbled on the term Intelligent Kindness, which has its foundations within healthcare. This article describes is eloquently: “Intelligent kindness, then, is not a soft, sentimental feeling or action...
The second of my watchwords for 2022 is purpose. When I blogged my reflection of 2021, the word that captured it best was ‘purpose’. In looking back, I realised that purpose helped me get-up and get-on, during a time of social isolation and profound uncertainty. My...
Join me in my second video of the Knowledge Share Series. This time I’m talking about the definition of leader effectiveness Click the image below
Having an interest in self-awareness, I really wanted to read this book. It has a wealth of data, information, case studies and resources in it. I couldn’t believe that for the price of the book alone you had 14 appendices worth of tools to help you assess and develop...
A review of a great book from 2014! Take a look! Click below…
Take a look at the first in my Knowledge Share video series on YouTube In this video I talk about self-awareness and my three layer definition Click to watch!
What will be your professional legacy? I’ve been checking out my pension, so it’s got me thinking…. I want to be remembered as a #leader that: always had time for peoplewas more interested in what could be done than what couldn’tput children, young, people, families,...